The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 42

He travelled many weary days without hearing a single word of the lost Princess, till one morning, as he was walking through a thick forest, he suddenly perceived a magnificent palace standing at the end of a pine avenue, and his heart bounded to think that he might be gazing on Rosalie’s prison.

Who acts: most, magnificent palace, heart · What happens: travel, hear, lose, walk, perceive, stand · To what, where: single word, thick forest, magnificent palace, end, lost Princess

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most, magnificent palace, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
4	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 travelled	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 hearing	mark
7	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 travelled	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 word	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 word	amod
10	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 Princess	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 Princess	amod
14	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 word	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 morning	punct
16	till	till	ADP	_	18 morning	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 morning	nummod
18	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hearing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 walking	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 walking	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 walking	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 walking	aux
23	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hearing	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	27 forest	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 forest	det
26	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 forest	amod
27	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walking	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 perceived	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 perceived	nsubj
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 perceived	advmod
31	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 palace	det
33	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 palace	amod
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 perceived	obj
35	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 palace	acl
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 end	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 end	det
38	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 standing	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 avenue	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 avenue	det
41	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 avenue	compound
42	avenue	avenue	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 end	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bounded	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bounded	cc
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 heart	nmod:poss
46	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 bounded	nsubj
47	bounded	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 think	mark
49	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 bounded	xcomp
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 gazing	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 gazing	nsubj
52	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 gazing	aux
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 gazing	aux
54	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 think	advcl
55	on	on	ADP	_	58 prison	case
56	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 prison	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 Rosalie	case
58	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gazing	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	most			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	gerund	most not said here	a single word of the lost Princess		morning		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	walk	past · progressive	most		a thick forest			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
5	perceive	past	most	a magnificent palace			suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
6	stand	gerund	a magnificent palace not said here			at the end of a pine avenue		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location
7	bound	past	most's heart					tree rules
8	think speech: other	to-infinitive	most's heart not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	gaze	might · progressive	most				on Rosalie's prison	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on prison=Theme
10	word			the lost Princess				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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